The president’ Pere Aragones received this Friday from the President of Occitania, Carol Delga, the rotating presidency of the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion which associates both regions, and the Balearic Islands. And in the gloss of the organization, which 20 years ago was promoted by the then ‘president’ Pasqual Maragall, the Republican applauded the ability to overcome borders” of the Euroregions. In fact, he vindicated Maragall up to three times, both at a press conference and in the handover act, and highlighted “the leadership” that the former socialist leader had two decades ago , with his “strategic vision that the European participation of Catalonia should be based on broader territorial alliances. “But we have to know how to redirect and reinforce European influence in the Mediterranean,” he added.
At the closing of the event, held in Toulouse, Aragonès stated that the Euroregion is “the best ally of the European project” and advanced that in the next two years they will work to consolidate this project through euroregional initiatives, and has also urged to resolve internal issues of border character, overcoming fiscal and labor regimes between the regions. He has also defended the need to work together, at a European level, safeguarding the “linguistic and cultural diversity that distinguishes us” and highlighting the wealth that the existing “language mosaic” represents for Europe.
triregional commitments
At the Euroregion assembly this Friday, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Occitania They have undertaken to promote a Mediterranean macro-region to “respond in coordination to the common environmental, social, cultural and economic challenges” that affect the territories of the Mediterranean basin.
These regions have committed to “actively participate” in the implementation of the macroregional Strategy, insisting on areas such as sustainability and biodiversity lossthe consequences of global warming and have been summoned to pay special attention to the island situation of the balearics regarding these issues.
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Likewise, the three parties have called for the deployment of “Mediterranean infrastructures structural energy” and that support be given to the energy transition of the islands and the improvement of their energy sovereignty, and they have also proposed that they reinforce European financial instruments support for cooperation in the Mediterranean area in order to implement the macro-region.
Aragonès thus culminates the trip that took him, on Thursday, to Northern Catalonia where he visited the house where the ‘expresident’ Francesc Macià lived in Prats de Molló, as well as the facilities of the rugby club USAP Perpinya, among other acts.